Ok, so here's the deal.I'm quite the n00b when it comes to big collections, as most of the ones I used to have as a kid were LEGO.. and we all know what happens to LEGO in the end.

As I had to leave home (Italy) for university (UK), I really wasn't into collecting much, or transporting and so on.So I've never really had that much.

I had a couple of Beast Wars figures: Magnaboss, Optimus Primal, Inferno and Rhinox, then the Transmetals Optimus Primal and Waspinator. But some of them were lost to my younger brother, and I only have the two apes and Magnaboss left. That was the extent of my collection.(Remember, this is Italy, so we never really got ANY animated series properly. Apart from Beast Wars, and that was aired around 7.30 in the morning, and we only really got season 1.)

After the first Bay movie came out, I kind of lazily looked around, picked up a couple of bargain Alternators (it was more like: "Oooh! Transformers! For cheap!", at a discount store equivalent), one for me, one for my brother.

Then the second film appeared, and I fell in love with the Sideways figure.That's when it started again.

Long prologue, I know, you don't have to read it. Although you're here now, so you probably have.

...is what I wrote when I started the thread.I've decided to look after this thread better, and organise it in the same way as many other users on here.

So the first post is where the pictures are, the second has the list.Everything else is comments, or particularly good shots I want to keep separate!

First, the Italian section, with the glorious Detolf display cabinet.

Then, the English one, with the whatever-the-landlord-fitted shelves.

The Variable Shelf

Comics Shelf

Worlds collide!

Special issues

Art

The Folder

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PCCCrankcase with Destrons UKBombshock with Combaticons UKOverrun with Stunticons UKMudslinger with Destructicons UKDoubleclutch with Rallybots UKSmolder and Chopster UKIcepick and Chainclaw UKSledge and Throttler UKHeavytread and Groundspike UKUndertow and Waterlog UKSkyhammer and Airlift UK

There's nothing wrong with having a focus, in your case movieverse, and from the look of things you've gone out of your way to find the most screen accurate versions of many figures (white Demolisher, red Rampage). Feel free to drop by the UK sightings thread in the sightings forum, we're always helping each other out with the best places to find new and, most importantly, cheap stuff. There's already a token German as a regular so you could be our token Italian! Which Uni are you studying at?

I do pop in and out of that, and living next to Toys'R'Us in Norwich (I'm at UEA), should allow me to inform of any new arrivals.

(Actually hoping to work for them, so we'll get news even sooner! )

The display cabinet is quite empty, but this is due to the fact that most of the figures are up in the UK. I will update around Christmas time, when I can move them back down.Well, some of them: the main plan was to have a Constructicon shelf (adding Payload and Mixmaster), the other will have to be arranged when I decide what to move.

Thanks again, even if it's just one person, I feel less inadequate now.

a trick i use to eliminate glare is to shoot off center and sometimes i place some printer paper behind them as its uneven surface helps break up the light.

but like others have said there is nothing wrong with being picky as long as youre finding what you really like.the worst feeling is buying something and then realizing you really didnt want it so keep up the great work and good luck in school

A couple of old photos from the Norwich shelf.At the moment, I have Optimus, Kup, Ironhide and Bumblebee (plus Sideswipe in alt-mode) in ready-for-battle mode on the left, facing Hatchet, Sideways, Crankcase, Shockwave and Megatron.But no camera.

Top shelf is Skyhammer (alt) and Terradive on left, Darkmount and Lockdown (alt) on right.And Classics Grimlock on desk. Because he's cute.

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While I won't clog up your thread with my list, I will say that there's nothing wrong with a particular era of toys to have. Nor even mixing and matching G1 with "Armada" and "Prime". If I still had my collection, I would've done that.

I'd say that I don't really have collecting criteria, apart from what I think looks good.Kind of on an IDW Wrecker bend at the moment, but I might limit myself to Blurr, Drift, Kup and Perceptor (maybe Guzzle, maybe).

As for the rest, waiting for DOTM Soundwave, to decide whether to complete the Decepticon corner.

Very quick update: the addition of DOTM Leader Sentinel Prime.I've moved some figures from Italy back to the UK, as I'll be moving house next month (into a studio flat) so I'll have SHELVES! (In Lugnut's voice: GLORIOUS SHELVES!)

Those are some nice commissions you've got there! I've been dying to get something from Nick, be it a sketch, signature, or page from a comic. I assume you met him at a convention in Europe? I wish he'd come stateside so I could get my wreckers stuff signed...

NineBreaker wrote:Those are some nice commissions you've got there! I've been dying to get something from Nick, be it a sketch, signature, or page from a comic. I assume you met him at a convention in Europe? I wish he'd come stateside so I could get my wreckers stuff signed...

I met him in London last February, yes.Was going to see him again at Auto Assembly, but can't make it there anymore.

I'm sure I'll bump into all of them soon though! I know Simon Furman is coming to Norwich in September, and Andrew Wildman will be in Leeds in November, with his personal graphic novel Horizon.